Questions and Answers for Joe in the New Year

Questions and Answers for Joe in the New Year

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I enjoy hearing from this blog’s readers, especially those with questions about photography, the blog, my cameras or whatever else...
Working with LED Modeling Lights: Pros & Cons

Working with LED Modeling Lights: Pros & Cons

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface” — Garry Winogrand The biggest upside to me  of using an LED source as a modeling light in a studio flash is that there are no more bulbs to lose or...
How-to Technique: A Two LED Portrait

How-to Technique: A Two LED Portrait

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “Lighting is really common sense and personal observation. This is applied to a few rules of photography which cannot be broken and to others which I tend to bend a little.”—Paul Beeson These days it seems that using LED lighting...
Creating Cartoons from Your Photographs

Creating Cartoons from Your Photographs

Today’s Post by Joe Farace “I don’t think of cartoons or comics as being for kids.”—Jeff Kinney Cartoons & Pop Art is a set of Photoshop actions from Panos Efstathiadis, the proprietor of PanosFX, an amazingly talented designer of Photoshop...
Shooting Portraits in the Snow

Shooting Portraits in the Snow

Today’s Post by Joe Farace In the past, a camera’s in-camera meter tended to dramatically underexpose from all the reflected light in snowy conditions. The old rule-of-thumb for shooting snow with film SLRs was to overexpose the indicated exposure by...